I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
“You see, there is an intellectual side to life but also a side to life where deep needs are experienced. We falsely… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
In our fast-food nation, we tend to think that the intellectual life, like everything else, can be had pre-chewed and in bulk… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
